Laundried-shirt protector.



N. J. GQDMN. LAUNDEIBD SHRT PROTECTOR. APPLIUATIGN FILED PEB. 1, 1913.

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NATHAN J'. GOODMAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI LAUNDRIED-SHIRT PROTECTOR.

My invention relates to improvements in laundried shirt protectors, and the object of my invention is to construct a protector for laundried shirts of the type employing a thin, transparent sheet of paper through which the pattern of the shirt is visible, and alrelatively thick backing which protects the s iirt.

In this improved construction especial attention is directed toward the backing which is arranged to have integral flaps which are secured to each other and whatever securing means is employed also secures in place the thin transparent sheet. By this arrangement the cost of assembling is reduced to a minimum and a decided advantage ensues for the reason that the protector has its side margins formed of the backing instead of relying upon the relatively thin transparent sheet.

With the above purposes in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement ofparts as will be hereinafter described and illustrated by t-he accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan on a reduced scale of one of my improved Yshirt protectors having a shirt therein, the uppermost corners of the protector being shown in section; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, the shirt being omitted; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the complete device; and Fig. l is a perspective on a reduced' scale showing the mouth of the protector extended to receive a shirt.

Referring by ing drawings: 5 designates the body portion or back of my improved shirt protector. This body portion is substantially rectangular and is of a length equal to the average length of laundried shirts and of a width as great as the maximum width of ordinary shirts. Carried by the side margins of the backing 5 and preferably formed integral therewith, that is out of the same piece of material, are the flaps 6. In order that the Specification of Letters Patent.

numerals to the accompany- Patented Aug. f3, M114.

Application filed February 1", 1913. Serial No. 745,728.

flaps 6 may be pressed against the body of the backin 5, Ithe line 7 of articulation between the acking and the flaps is creased. At their approximate longitudinal centers the flaps 6 have widths substantially, but not fully, half the width of the backing 5 so that, when the flaps are folded over the backing, their margins at their longitudinal centers will be adjacent each other.

8 designates a gummed seal which is arranged to connect the flaps 6. rl`he flaps 6 each converge from their longitudinal centers toward the ends of the protector and at one lend of the protector there are the slots 9 on the lines 7 between the flaps 6 and the backing 5. v

10 designates the sheet of paper which is transparent and whose dimensions are approximately the dimensions of the backing 5. This sheet of transparent paper is' secured only at its center by being adhesively secured to that portion of the gummed seal lying between the margins of the flaps 6.

By reason of the transparency of the sheet 10 and the formation of the flaps o, the pattern or style of a shirt inclosed in the wrapper may be visible and determined without dismantling the protector and without mov ing the shirt lengthwise through the wrapper to expose the end thereof.

By the provision of the slots 9 between the backing and the flaps at one end of the. protector, the insertion of a shirt in the protector is facilitated and accomplished without danger of tearing the body of the protector on the folding lines.

For the reason that the body, or the backing and flaps, Vis in one piece covering the sides of the protector, tearing out of the sides of the protector is entirely eliminated, and for the reason that the thin transparent sheet is unsecured at its margin the tearingl or destruction of the said sheet is reduced to a minimum.

Heretofore it has been the practice to secure the margins of the transparent sheet to the margins ofthe backing, hence when, a shirt, or the like, was inserted in a protector as much strain was placed upon the transparent sheet as upon the backing, which very frequently resulted in the tearing of the transparent sheet. A distinct advantage in my improved construction lies in the fact that the single gummed seal serves to connect the flaps and also secure the transparent sheet in place.

" a backing having opposite marginal iaps, a 'subscribing Witnesses.

.Heretofore protectors Were made with a abaekinghavingmargnalsidelaps, identical 15 thin sheet and a relatively thick, inflexible in size and shape, the eatest width of each A sheet, the margins of which were connected of which is less than alf the Widthv of the by gmming. The backing sheet of my `imbacking, a transparent sheet detached from proved construction is more or less flexible, said backing and flaps and a sealr for uniting 'Y so that a protector having a shirt therein saidlapsat their wldestportions:and'holdfv 2g may be folded or rolled as desired. lng in place said transparent sheet.v

I claim: v, In testimony whereof, I have signed my 1. A laundried shirt protector, comprising name to this specification, presence of two seal vuniting said ilaps, and a transparent NATHAN J. GOODMAN. sheet secured to said seal and having its Witnesses: margins free from said backing. and aps. E. L. WALLACE,

2. A laundried shirt protector, comprising N. G. BU'rnER. 

